The Ins and Outs of the Fish House

[...] We hadn't seen Conner in a while and he was just a ball of chubby fun! We also had enrolled 3 Fish Sticks (all middle girls) in an indoor soccer league before we realized we would be traveling to [...]

[...] Our Fish Sticks go to lots of sporting events every year.  Sometimes they whine and complain but most of the [...]

[...] cousins to a game of soccer and not to brag or anything, they were no match for the Fish Sticks.  ;)  Jeshua loved playing and his fancy footwork was more confirmation that their given [...]

[...] the bags and prepare to go. For months I would pass their bedroom....empty....when I tucked the Fish Sticks in bed and cry, wishing they were in their beds to be tucked in too.  It felt like a dream [...]

[...] We got home late Friday night and on Sunday, Anna Blair had her first ever piano recital.  She and Leah had taken lessons a few years ago from a [...]

[...] it was, you can see a few colored dots at the bottom by the rocks.  Those are people. Anna Blair & Annika My awesome SIL and me spectacular! The Little Fish Sticks After hiking so [...]

[...] kids with her new camera and I wanted to share them. Love all my Fish Sticks! Caleb - age 15 Anna Blair - age 13 Leah - age 11 Ruth - age 9 Josiah - age 7 Lydia - age 5 Jeshua - age 3 Jedidiah - age [...]

[...] Country this year (although hindsight I think she missed it and will return next year) but Anna Blair and Ruth both ran.  As usual, they did a super job and always placed really high in the races.   [...]

[...] Kroger stickers and told me he was Iron Man!  I like it. My Man said that he always got ice cream after shots when he was a kid, so we walked next door for ice cream at Wendy's.  As you [...]

[...] We were daring and went out 2 nights after coming home to Chick Fila for a late night ice cream/milkshake run.  Ice cream was a hit for the boys and there was not a hint of shyness when [...]

[...] they started riding their bikes about 3 miles away to the local country store and grabbing ice cream.  I think they enjoyed it but I will say that I got a couple of phone calls asking for the truck [...]

[...] the hard wait and praying for us. We met her at Chick Fila so she could meet the boys. They love ice cream and are not shy about taking their kid meal toy to the counter by themselves to trade it out! [...]

[...] 't sure how the boys would react to seeing her.  I had heard of children clinging to their adoptive parents and hurting the feelings of their foster mother's by not being warm with them.  I had also [...]

[...] children who were permitted to leave DRC.  Soon after we returned with the boys, the waiting adoptive parents flew to Washington DC to gather as one group under the advocacy of Both Ends Burning [...]

[...] sad thing I've noticed is that many, many of these anti-international-adoption folks are adoptive parents themselves.  I suspect that they must have found in their own adoption process some [...]

[...] stored the paper products in our garage for the party. A couple of days before the picnic, the big kids had just left for school and I was getting ready in my room.  It was a very windy morning and I [...]

[...] limited English that they did not want to go back to DRC - over and over they said it.  The big kids tried their best to explain to the boys that they were not going back to DRC, that they were [...]

[...] boys were also in a toddler stage that I like to call "ME DO."  They want to be big kids like their siblings and try to do everything.  They are super "helpers" in the [...]

[...] team were students at our school and one of the coaches is the soccer coach at school for our big kids.  It was a great team. He loved every minute of it.  One of his games was at night...under the [...]

[...] experience that can easily seclude you from normal life.  As I mentioned before on my adoption blog, there's a whole new lingo that you learn as you are filling out paperwork and waiting [...]

[...] I've thought long and hard about this blog post.  Should I continue my adoption blog from this point of the story?  I want this part to be in our family blog book though.  How [...]

[...] I think I posted once on our adoption blog how My Man's cousins (who are twins adopted from Korea) said that anytime strangers would [...]

[...] booth that did saloon, old-time photos.  We were pleasantly surprised with the low price for a photo shoot and decided to give it a try.  No telling what the boys thought of this crazy American [...]

[...] weren't aware of "the plan." Photo #2 with early rejoicing from Uncle Eric that the photo shoot was complete Silly one and this was when some of realized the camera was still clicking photos [...]

[...] girls (and their mamas!).  The cousins loved looking up ideas for poses to try for a photo shoot.  They performed for the family on one of our last nights together.  Some were amazing [...]

[...] photos of us as a family of 10.  I printed off many of the photos from this summer and our photo shoot from my SIL.  We had a framed photo of the boys kissing their foster mama in their room for [...]

[...] , plus she discounted his glasses.  Jedidiah would act shy around her when we saw her at football games but about a month later, he told me at the football game that he saw her and even though Dr. [...]

[...] ....not to mention watching the games are lots of fun. The twins learned quickly to enjoy football games.  Jeshua takes off on the the playground with Josiah or tackles all the other big boys in a [...]

[...] absolutely adore them.  Throughout the fall I would find my boys sitting by them at football games, holding their hands, asking to sit by them at school events, waving at them at church, [...]

[...] complain but most of the time they use it to socialize and play.  We hosted lots of football games on our home field this year, which we LOVED, so it felt like home to the kids.  Most [...]

[...] desire to join our family in their misunderstood sorrow.  I was so grateful for their foster mama, knowing that she was the one responsible for prepping them for this very day.  How I [...]

[...] restaurant as most folks began joining him in singing, including our lawyer, her daughter and foster mama.  I wish I had a video of his performance. Since the boys had not been very fond of packaged [...]

[...] this summer and our photo shoot from my SIL.  We had a framed photo of the boys kissing their foster mama in their room for them - in hopes to have a piece of DRC for them when they got home. After I [...]